The piece I've been working on, five months, anyone asks it's eight weeks, is a family-friendly adventure feature spec, anyway I've just gotten it well past the finish line in terms of story material, working to an outline of course, and I read through all of Act II today
and I think it's got potential so the pieces are sort of getting strung together and in conjunction with just writing sequences and getting past a page count of 120, it will be cut.
I'm so grateful for this simultaneous feeling and magic of material written in stone meeting unlimited potential.
And just reaching back in my memory over the entire summer of grinding away at this thing. I'm so pleased to nurture a project forward when it's a good fun idea that I'm excited about.
Making it take several months, half a year or more to push a project even to the completion of a first draft, that's a commitment I recognize because it's often about pursuing one specific idea at the expense of working on numerous other projects,
I think it can yield a special kind of result.
That said, this project for me is part of working forward to be more prolific and productive.
Celebrate your accomplishments for five minutes and then continue to express new concepts!
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Congratulations! That is an amazing feeling when you accomplished a draft.
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You must be so relieved! Congrats!
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This project from a year ago was recently read by a director, and got great compliments from a development executive, now realizing as robust as the story material is, the Super Turbo Jet Boats screenplay is probably three full feature stories mashed into one.
We know how fun and easy it can be to rough draft and frame out projects like that, but we also know they will need rewrites to be coherent and fix those first-draft shenanigans.
So I am moving forward with production for a micro-budget proof-of-concept reel and putting together a graphic novel format to serve as the LookBook, StoryBoards, Pitch Deck and Shot List as well as a visual script working document all in one.
Already I've shot about a thousand photos in the past year and recently moved to Virginia Beach so that I can shoot this goofy short film on location.
After a year and a half on Stage 32, I pretty much decided that for me if I'm going to be successful as a screenwriter I must turn myself into a filmmaker. And this creative momentum enables me to continue deconstructing and reexaming the script throughout the process.